Captiva Names Howard Dratler Executive Vice President of Field Operations.

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SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2003

Technology Veteran to Lead Captiva's Worldwide Sales, Professional

Services and Technical Services Groups

Captiva Software Corp. (NASDAQ:CPTV) a leading provider of input management solutions, today announced the addition of technology industry veteran Howard Dratler as its executive vice president of field operations. In this new position, Dratler will lead Captiva's worldwide sales, professional services and technical services groups.

Dratler is a seasoned executive who has more than 20 years of experience in successfully leading sales, marketing and service functions at innovative enterprise software companies. He comes to Captiva from Allocity, a venture capital-funded start-up targeting the email application storage market, where he was executive vice president of field operations. Prior to Allocity, he was with VERITAS, most recently as vice president of strategic platform alliances, where he developed and executed business expansion strategies. Before that, he was vice president and general manager of VERITAS' HP Business Unit, which was created to drive its HP business worldwide. He originally joined VERITAS as the southwest regional sales director. Prior to VERITAS, Dratler was with OpenVision Technology, where he was a district manager responsible for establishing new accounts in the Southwest. Before that, he spent 10 years with NCR in ascending product management and engineering positions.

"Howard brings an abundance of sales and customer relations experience to Captiva, and he has an impressive track record of aligning companies with customers to maximize their business potential," said Reynolds C. Bish, president and CEO of Captiva. "We're extremely pleased to welcome Howard to Captiva, and are confident he will bolster the efforts of Blaine Owens, our vice president of worldwide sales, Matt Albanese, our vice president of technical services, and James Haley, our vice president of professional services, as well the rest of our senior management team. We believe this addition better positions us to take advantage of the opportunities that lie ahead and solidifies our management team as the strongest, most accomplished group of professionals in the input management segment of the enterprise content management (ECM) market."

"I'm excited to join Captiva at a time when the company is expanding to take advantage of the unprecedented business opportunities it faces in 2004," said Dratler. "I look forward to helping Captiva leverage its strong sales, professional service and technical service teams to better serve the needs of its rapidly-expanding customer base."

Under Captiva's new executive recruitment stock option plan, Captiva's board of directors approved a grant of 200,000 options to Dratler at an exercise price equal to the closing market price on the effective date of the grant, vesting over a four-year period.

About Captiva

Captiva Software Corp. is a leading provider of input management solutions. Since 1989, the company's award-winning products have been used to manage business critical information from paper, faxed and scanned forms and documents, Internet forms and XML data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These products automate the processing of billions of forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable in database, document, content and other information management systems. Captiva's technology serves thousands of users in insurance, financial services, government, business process outsourcing, direct marketing and other markets. For more information, visit www.captivasoftware.com.

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